(External News) Standards.Next - Cognition and accessibility
20 August 2009
Standards.Next is back for a second time focusing on cognition and accessible web design.
When accommodating people with cognitive disabilities it's difficult to know where to start. It's one of the least understood and less documented disabilities on the web, difficult to pin down in guidelines such as WCAG and hard to define in practice. How best can we use graphics, colours and video, where are the barriers and where are the doorways in?
We'll be discussing the above and more with speakers including:
- Antonia Hyde (http://hiantonia.wordpress.com/): a designer and the driver behind Easy YouTube. Antonia has worked with rich media and web apps for people with cognitive disabilities and has a wealth of knowledge on this area.
- David Owens (http://fineartdavid.com/): front-end developer and web standards advocate David will share his findings from carrying out some user testing with people with cognitive disabilities and how this influenced design decisions.
- Jamie Knight (http://www.jkg3.com/): Jamie has first hand knowledge as a web designer himself with autism. He'll be telling us what works and doesn't work and why.
So come armed with your questions, thoughts and tips. There will be nibbles on hand and a trip to the pub after!
When and Where?
City University, Room C343,
Northampton Square
London
EC1V 0HB
on Saturday 19 September 2009 from 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Source: Standards.Next.org
